Tag: Forest

A visit to the Asia Indigenous People Pact (AIPP) booth in Green Zone led me to a series of immense thoughts on indigenous people in climate change. We were there to have a short Sumazau Dance practice with Winnie, a representative from JOAS. The dance performance was for Asia Day on the next day. JOAS…

SPEECH BY HE DATO SRI DR WAN JUNAIDI TUANKU JAAFAR HONOURABLE MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT MALAYSIA FOR JOINT HIGH LEVEL SEGMENT OF COP21/ CMP11 7-11 DECEMBER 2015 Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to convey our profound condolences to the people of France on the recent attacks and to express…

“Our lost has been too significant, and those that left have been too insignificant.” – Dr. Efransjah Is palm oil and timber industry jeopardizing the orangutan’s survival and the forest coverage in Borneo? The answer is, it depends. In the “A Solution for Climate Change and Low Carbon” COP parallel event, Dr. Efransjah, CEO of…

Among all the inhabitants of planet Earth, we, human beings can be considered the smartest for we make use of all the natural resources obtained from our surrounding such as Land, Water, Soil, Plants, Animals to make a comfortable living. But sadly, judging by the actions that we have done and the situation that we…

Degradation and deforestation of the world’s tropical forests are cumulatively responsible for about 10% of net global carbon emissions. Therefore, tackling the destruction of tropical forests is core to any concerted effort to combat climate change (14). Traditional approaches to halting tropical forest loss have typically been unsuccessful, as can be seen from the fact that…